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http://www.esourceresearch.org/

Inside e-Source you will find 20 interactive chapters with authoritative answers to methodological questions on behavioral and social science research. With contributions from a team of international experts, this anthology provides the latest information on addressing emerging challenges in public health. Book contents include: Setting the Scene, Describing How, Explaining Why, What Works, Emerging Issues. Tables, Figures, Exercises and Examples are included. Login for enhanced functionality. Contents: * Appropriate Research Methods * ''Science'' in the Social Sciences * Design Decisions in Research * Theory Development * Social and Behavioral Theories * Sample Surveys * Social Survey Data Collection * Administrative Data Systems * Observational Studies * Qualitative Methods * Conversation Analysis * Software and Qualitative Analysis * Clinical Trials * Cluster Unit Randomized Trials * Ethical Challenges * Multilevel Modeling * Objective Measurement of Subjective Phenomena * Measuring Socioeconomic Status * Evaluating the Quality of Health Care * Patient-Reported Outcomes

Proper citation: e-Source: Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (RRID:SCR_005627) Copy   

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http://grants.nih.gov/podcasts/All_About_Grants/index.htm

The Office of Extramural Research (OER) presents conversations with NIH staff members. Designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others, we provide insights on grant topics from those who live and breathe the information. In mp3 and updated monthly. Transcripts are also available. So You Wanna... Keep Up with What''''s Hot? Prepare a Successful Grant Application? Suggest a Topic? Understand How Your Grant is Reviewed? Be an NIH Investigator?

Proper citation: All About Grants Podcast (RRID:SCR_005621) Copy   

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http://slicer.org/

A free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis including registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical image data. Slicer provides a graphical user interface to a powerful set of tools so they can be used by end-user clinicians and researchers alike. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X. Slicer is based on VTK (http://public.kitware.com/vtk) and has a modular architecture for easy addition of new functionality. It uses an XML-based file format called MRML - Medical Reality Markup Language which can be used as an interchange format among medical imaging applications. Slicer is primarily written in C++ and Tcl.

Proper citation: 3D Slicer (RRID:SCR_005619) Copy   

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https://rarediseases.org/organizations/nihoffice-of-rare-disease-research/

Organization which develops and maintains a centralized database on rare disease clinical research supported by the NIH. It also stimulates rare disease research by supporting scientific workshops and symposia, responds to requests for information on highly technical matters and matters of public policy, provides information to the Office of the Director on matters relating to rare diseases and orphan products, and coordinates and serves as a liaison with Federal and non-Federal national and international organizations.

Proper citation: Office of Rare Diseases Research (RRID:SCR_004121) Copy   

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http://www.essentialtremor.us/

Finding a cure for any neurological disorder begins with the scientific study of the disorder''s causes, processes, and development in the brain. For essential tremor (ET), rigorous study of this kind had not been undertaken until 2003, when the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (ETCBR) was established at Columbia University. For the past five years, brain tissue from ET donors has been collected, processed and compared alongside age-matched control brains at the ETCBR, and already several significant findings have been made. However, there is still much to learn and a severe shortage of ET brains for scientific study. If you have been diagnosed with essential tremor, donating your brain tissue in the hours immediately after your death is of utmost importance in providing crucial information about what causes ET. Direct analysis of the shape and number of nerve cells and their content will provide medical researchers with the information they need in order to understand this complex illness. By advancing our medical knowledge of ET, the gift of brain tissue is a central piece of the puzzle in the search to develop better treatments and find a cure.

Proper citation: Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (RRID:SCR_004464) Copy   

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http://www.na-mic.org/

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers, and medical investigators who develop computational tools for the analysis and visualization of medical image data. The purpose of the Center is to provide the infrastructure and environment for the development of computational algorithms and open-source technologies, and then oversee the training and dissemination of these tools to the medical research community. Electronic resources provided by NA-MIC include software, data, tutorials, presentations, and more.

Proper citation: National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (RRID:SCR_004460) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosystems/

Database that provides access to biological systems and their component genes, proteins, and small molecules, as well as literature describing those biosystems and other related data throughout Entrez. A biosystem, or biological system, is a group of molecules that interact directly or indirectly, where the grouping is relevant to the characterization of living matter. BioSystem records list and categorize components, such as the genes, proteins, and small molecules involved in a biological system. The companion FLink tool, in turn, allows you to input a list of proteins, genes, or small molecules and retrieve a ranked list of biosystems. A number of databases provide diagrams showing the components and products of biological pathways along with corresponding annotations and links to literature. This database was developed as a complementary project to (1) serve as a centralized repository of data; (2) connect the biosystem records with associated literature, molecular, and chemical data throughout the Entrez system; and (3) facilitate computation on biosystems data. The NCBI BioSystems Database currently contains records from several source databases: KEGG, BioCyc (including its Tier 1 EcoCyc and MetaCyc databases, and its Tier 2 databases), Reactome, the National Cancer Institute's Pathway Interaction Database, WikiPathways, and Gene Ontology (GO). It includes several types of records such as pathways, structural complexes, and functional sets, and is desiged to accomodate other record types, such as diseases, as data become available. Through these collaborations, the BioSystems database facilitates access to, and provides the ability to compute on, a wide range of biosystems data. If you are interested in depositing data into the BioSystems database, please contact them.

Proper citation: NCBI BioSystems Database (RRID:SCR_004690) Copy   

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http://www.zebrafinch.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 29, 2016. Project to advance understanding of the neural mechanisms of vocal learning by providing a quantitative description of the relationship between physiological variables and vocal performance over the course of development in a songbird, the zebra finch. They propose to study vocal learning dynamically across neuronal and peripheral subsystems, using a novel collaborative approach that will harness the combined expertise of several investigators. Their proposed research model will 1) provide simultaneous measurements of acoustic, articulatory and electrophysiological data that will document the detailed dynamics of the vocal imitation process in a standardized learning paradigm; and 2) incorporate these measurements into a theoretical/computational framework that simultaneously provides a phenomenological description and attempts to elucidate the mechanistic basis of the learning process.

Proper citation: Zebra Finch Song Learning Consortium (RRID:SCR_006356) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/

Repository for electron microscopy density maps of macromolecular complexes and subcellular structures at Protein Data Bank in Europe. Covers techniques, including single-particle analysis, electron tomography, and electron (2D) crystallography.

Proper citation: Electron Microscopy Data Bank at PDBe (MSD-EBI) (RRID:SCR_006506) Copy   

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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

OER serves as a vital interface between the NIH and the biomedical research community by guiding investigators through the process of attaining grants funding and helping them understand and navigate through federal policies and procedures. OER supports extramural research by providing policy and guidance to the 24 NIH Institutes and Centers that award grants. Extramural grants account for approximately 84 percent of NIH''s 29 billion budget. These are awarded to investigators throughout the U.S. and abroad. Approximately 10 percent of the NIH budget supports NIH intramural investigators, NIH staff who conduct research.

Proper citation: Office of Extramural Research NIH (RRID:SCR_006547) Copy   

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http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/neuroscience/

Research center that takes multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience education and research. Research programs on molecular and cellular bases of neural diseases are the center of the innovative educational programs. Primary mission is to foster and conduct science that advances understanding of brain function and diseases that affect nervous system.

Proper citation: Louisiana State University School of Medicine Neurosciences Center (RRID:SCR_006446) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/

Consortium that puts sequences into a chromosome context and provides the best possible reference assembly for human, mouse, and zebrafish via FTP. Tools to facilitate the curation of genome assemblies based on the sequence overlaps of long, high quality sequences.

Proper citation: Genome Reference Consortium (RRID:SCR_006553) Copy   

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http://www.asn-online.org/

Society leading the fight against kidney disease by educating health professionals, sharing new knowledge, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality care for patients. To accomplish its mission, ASN will: # Educate health professionals by increasing the value of ASN education. # Share new knowledge by improving the quality and expanding the reach of ASN''s communications, including maintaining the premier publications in kidney disease. # Promote the highest quality care by serving as the professional organization informing health policy in kidney disease. # Advance patient care and research in kidney disease by strengthening the pipeline of clinicians, researchers, and educators. To accomplish this goal, ASN will: ## Implement a strategy to increase interest in nephrology careers, which includes promoting diversity within the nephrology workforce. ## Help fund travel to ASN educational activities for physicians and researchers training in the field of kidney disease. ## Use the ASN Grants Program to support outstanding research and foster career development. # Continue to bolster the ASN infrastructure, which includes: ## Increasing diversityincluding age and experience, ethnicity, and genderat all levels of the society. ## Providing avenues for helping ASN members facilitate professional exchange. ## Expanding ASN membership. ## Increasing the ASN Council-Designated Endowment Fund (independent of operational budget) to support grants and other priorities

Proper citation: ASN - American Society of Nephrology (RRID:SCR_006709) Copy   

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http://med.stanford.edu/narcolepsy.html

The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was established in the 1980s as part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Today, it is the world leader in narcolepsy research with more than 100 articles on narcolepsy to its name. The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was the first to report that narcolepsy-cataplexy is caused by hypocretin (orexin) abnormalities in both animal models and humans. Under the direction of Drs. Emmanuel Mignot and Seiji Nishino, the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy today treats several hundred patients with the disorder each year, many of whom participate in various research protocols. Other research protocols are conducted in animal models of narcolespy. We are always looking for volunteers in our narcolepsy research studies. We are presently recruiting narcoleptic patients for genetic studies, drug clinical trials, hypocretin measurement studies in the CSF and functional MRI studies. Monetary gifts to the Center for Narcolepsy are welcome. If you wish to make the ultimate gift, please consider participating in our Brain Donation Program. To advance our understanding of the cause, course, and treatment of narcolepsy, in 2001 Stanford University started a program to obtain human brain tissue for use in narcolepsy research. Donated brains provide an invaluable resource and we have already used previously donated brains to demonstrate that narcolepsy is caused by a lack of a very specific type of cell in the brain, the hypocretin (orexin) neuron. While the brain donations do not directly help the donor, they provide an invaluable resource and a gift to others. The real answers as to what causes or occurrs in the brain when one has narcolepsy will only be definitively understood through the study of brain tissue. Through these precious donations, narcolepsy may eventually be prevented or reversible. We currently are seeking brains from people with narcolepsy (with cataplexy and without), idiopathic hypersomnia and controls or people without a diagnosed sleep disorder of excessive sleepiness. Control brains are quite important to research, as findings must always be compared to tissue of a non-affected person. Friends and loved ones of people who suffer with narcoleps may wish to donate to our program to help fill this very important need. Refer to the Movies tab for movies of Narcolepsy / Cataplexy.

Proper citation: Stanford Center for Narcolepsy (RRID:SCR_007021) Copy   

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https://mctfr.psych.umn.edu/

Composed of many projects, including the Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS) and The Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS), this research center seeks to identify genetic and environmental influences on development and psychological traits. Both projects are longitudinal research studies including twins, siblings, and parents. Over 9800 individuals have contributed to these exciting projects! By studying twins and siblings and their families, we can estimate how genes and environment interact to influence character, strengths, vulnerabilities and values. Participants in the MTFS include families with same-sex identical or fraternal twins who were born in Minnesota. The SIBS study is comprised of adoptive and biological siblings and their parents. Most participants partake in day-long visits to the MCTFR, and due to the longitudinal nature of our projects, they return every 3-4 years for follow-up visits.

Proper citation: Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (RRID:SCR_006948) Copy   

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http://homer.ucsd.edu/

Software tools for Motif Discovery and next-gen sequencing analysis. Used for analyzing ChIP-Seq, GRO-Seq, RNA-Seq, DNase-Seq, Hi-C and numerous other types of functional genomics sequencing data sets. Collection of command line programs for unix style operating systems written in Perl and C++.

Proper citation: HOMER (RRID:SCR_010881) Copy   

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http://www.rcsb.org/#Category-welcome

Collection of structural data of biological macromolecules. Database of information about 3D structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. Users can perform queries on data and analyze and visualize results.

Proper citation: Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) (RRID:SCR_012820) Copy   

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http://ciliate.org/index.php/home/welcome

TGD Wiki is a user-updatable database of information about the Tetrahymena thermophila genome sequence determined at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). TGD Wiki provides information on the genome, genes, and proteins of Tetrahymena collected from the scientific literature, research community and many other resources. In order to keep the information in our database as current as possible, we will soon be inviting the members of the Tetrahymena community to add and update these annotations to reflect published research. TGD Wiki currently offers the following features: * Free, unrestricted read access to all available data * Sequence and annotation data for 24,725 genes (TIGR v.2008) * GBrowse genome browser with links to and from each gene page (TIGR v.2006) * BLAST searching of the TIGR gene models and genome sequence (TIGR v.2006) Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD) Wiki began in 2004 at Stanford University using the schema and programs of its parent project, Saccharomyces Genome Database. TGD Wiki is now a collaboration between Bradley University, Stanford University, and Cornell University. As we begin TGD Wiki at its new home at Bradley University, the TGD Wiki database contains the following data from TGD: * Gene Names and Aliases * Gene Descriptions * Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations * Homologs (similar genes in selected organisms) * Protein Domains * Associated Literature * Paragraphs (longer, free-text descriptions of gene function, structure, and significance) * Coding and Protein Sequences We have updated the following fields to match the newest gene model sequences (TIGR v.2008): Coding and Protein Sequences, Protein Domains and Gene Descriptions. We will also be recalculating the GO Annotations (IEA evidence code) and Homologs as part of our effort to keep the annotations in TGD Wiki as current as possible. We will be relying on members of the Tetrahymena community to maintain high-quality, updated annotations in the remainder of the fields using our annotation interface. Also setting up new database superdb - for unpublished data Look at Ciliate.org for news on this and other new databases

Proper citation: TGD (RRID:SCR_012803) Copy   

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http://cerebrovascularportal.org

Portal enables browsing, searching, and analysis of human genetic information linked to cerebrovascular disease and related traits, while protecting the integrity and confidentiality of the underlying data.

Proper citation: Cerebrovascular Disease Knowledge Portal (RRID:SCR_015628) Copy   

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https://github.com/KravitzLab/fed/wiki

Flexible open-source device for measuring feeding behavior. FED measures food intake in mice. It is battery powered and designed to be used in rodent colony caging.Home cage-compatible feeding system that measures food intake with high accuracy and temporal resolution. FED offers alternative to commercial feeders, with convenience of use in tradition colony rack caging.

Proper citation: Feeding Experimentation Device project (RRID:SCR_015942) Copy   

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